McKown, John wrote:
Outside of that, if this were to be done often, then I'd write my own program. In HLASM, assuming a sequential file, I'd look at the DS1LSTAR (and DS1TRBAL if the DS is extended format). I would then use BSAM and POINT myself at record 1 of either the last track or next-to-last track and read forward from there until EOF. This does not apply to any other dataset type.
That was my first thought when I saw the original post, but life has a way of being difficult - what if it's VBS with a very, very long last record?
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